Not so fast!

Nuclear waste repository contract delayed 3 months amid protest from losing bidder

https://www.yahoo.com/now/nuclear-waste-repository-contract-delayed-160115292.html

Chinese fusion research

 China is carrying out extensive fusion projects to promote the final application of clean fusion energy.

https://phys.org/news/2022-07-key-material-fusion-energy-application.amp

Back to the drawing board

 Not exactly good news for NIF

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02022-1

Nuc fusion

 Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have made a breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology, pushing the goal of harnessing limitless energy closer to reality...

https://eurasiantimes.com/holy-grail-us-china-fight-it-out-for-dominance-in-limitless-energy/?amp

Resistance to wind energy

 https://www.iwf.org/2022/07/20/when-it-comes-to-clean-energy-wind-is-an-expensive-loser-for-the-american-people/

WIPP management

 DOE Awards WIPP Management and Operating Contract to Tularosa Basin Range Services, LLC (TBRS), Comprised of Bechtel National, Inc.

https://www.energy.gov/em/articles/doe-awards-waste-isolation-pilot-plant-wipp-management-and-operating-contract

How bad will this get?

 Another Covid surge is on its way, LANL is back to masking and many people are talking about work of from home again. How bad will this get?

Get inside, NYC!

 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11003825/New-York-City-releases-new-PSA-NUCLEAR-ATTACK-three-simple-steps.html

New York City releases PSA for a NUCLEAR ATTACK after Russian state media boasted Putin could wipe out the US East Coast: Video says 'keep radioactive dust away from you' In a new 90 second clip, NYC's Emergency Management Department tells New Yorkers to: 'Get inside, stay inside and stay tuned'

I get the feeling that they are trying to tell us something? In any case I am sure that putting Bechtel in charge of LLNL will sure put the fear into Putin.

Mello on LANL

 Greg Mello posted on this on a local news paper. I would guess that "former" director is Sig Hecker.

LANL should be closed. I have a conversation with a former lab director who told me LANL was (at the time we spoke) twice the size it needed to be for the mission. (Now that would be 3 or even 4 times the size needed, in his very experienced view.) Back in the early 1950s, there were voices in the Atomic Energy Commission which wanted LANL closed, saying LANL was the wrong place for its work.

Until 2018 there was not going to be an industrial pit mission at LANL. NNSA wisely thought it unlikely to succeed, or to succeed for long, and/or would not be cost-effective. That's still true. The dramatic expansion we see at LANL today is the result of a) our NM senators organizing Senate pressure on Trump, who was easy to pressure, and later b) the contractors and a neoconservative cabal in the Pentagon (which Biden has kept intact) blackmailing Trump using Inhofe, Liz Cheney, and others during the second impeachment ("give us a gigantic spending increase, in part to fund two pit factories, or we will have to assume you are a Putin stooge and vote against you").

A man who is now a senior federal nuclear safety official said to me in 2019, "Greg, we all know what is going to happen at LANL. They will go on until they have accidents and incidents that shut them down. We can only hope not too many people will be hurt."

Experiment at Sandia

 Now this is the type of research Sandia is cut out for:

https://twitter.com/SandiaLabs/status/1545143047146684416

Sandia lawsuit update

 Sandia lawsuit claiming research misconduct proceeds to federal court:

https://nationworldnews.com/sandia-national-labs-nuclear-scientist-sued-after-being-fired/

Who's calling the shots?

 We are coming up to year since NIF had the one great burning plasma shot. Celebrations where at hand, Nobel prizes where to be given, rapid progress would soon happen, Lux!!!.

What happened? Was the shot ever reproduced? Seems odd that a year latter and they cannot duplicate it.